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billeastern
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Muzzle Blast
#200730 - 27/01/12 05:22 AM

A little off topic but I guess qualifies as a big bore. A friend sent to me this morning and could not resist sharing. Taken in the late 30's early 40's. Can you imagine the overpressure around that thing.

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Ben
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Re: Muzzle Blast [Re: billeastern]
#200738 - 27/01/12 09:13 AM

Awesome!

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Muzzle Blast [Re: billeastern]
#200745 - 27/01/12 11:38 AM

That's got to make your chest thump on both ends.

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Re: Muzzle Blast [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#200753 - 27/01/12 12:44 PM

Would the white plumes closest to the barrel end equate to the individual rifling channels?
Rick

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Re: Muzzle Blast [Re: 375Brno]
#200756 - 27/01/12 02:08 PM

lucky it hasnt got a muzzle brake to blow your ears off !

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Re: Muzzle Blast [Re: 500Boswell]
#200775 - 27/01/12 03:40 PM

Those fun Germans and their fireworks ....

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Muzzle Blast [Re: 375Brno]
#200778 - 27/01/12 04:17 PM

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Would the white plumes closest to the barrel end equate to the individual rifling channels?
Rick

Yes, those are from the barrel grooves.

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billeastern
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Re: Muzzle Blast [Re: NitroX]
#200779 - 27/01/12 04:17 PM

Rick not sure. But this thing could shoot a 550 pound shell at almost 3700 fps. That's like a 7'mm weatherby.... It's the same type used at Anzio. More amazing is the stuff Krupp was showing up at world fairs in the late 1800s. When the rest of the world were still fixated on cast iron muzzle loaders these guys were making steel breechloaders that fired half ton shells. Google Krupp 1867 cannon and check the images. Skoda out of Austria was a close second or first depending on who you ask. I am an old artillery buff....

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